I brought my brother a bottle of Voodoo Maple Bacon Ale to try at a party recently. A few of his friends (drinking Bud) were eager to try it out. They all said "this beer tastes nothing like bacon or donuts. It tastes like beer". Of course it does....its beer!

Also can't wait for Lagunitas' Brown Shugga to release again very soon!

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I've never had it fresh, but I had a 2006 bottle yesterday and I have to assume that it just went so very far south. Tasted of raw green bell peppers and other, salty vegetably flavors. I was splitting the bottle with two friends, leaving each of us with only 3oz to drink, but it was a drain pour for all three of us. I want to say it was almost ten dollars for that miserable little 9oz bottle, too. Fortunately, other good beers were had (in order):

And, while finishing the Belgian Red and getting ready to pour the Jahva, a glass I was wiping shattered in my hand. Giving me a nasty cut between my thumb and index finger. Pretty gnarly, but it seems to be healing alright. Sucked, because I just bought the damn glass.

EDIT: Oh, and there was a Breakfast Stout in there somewhere, too. Forgot about that one.

I picked up a bottle of Southern Tier Pumking while I was out and about today. Been wanting to try to GOOD pumpkin beer ever since I had Dogfish Head Punkin Ale a while back and picked this up since it's highly-ish rated.

UGH.

It smells awesome, but I'm ready to pour it down the drain. Maybe I got a bad bottle?

No, that stuff is the worst pumpkin ale I've tasted. Unless i got a bad bottle as well....

Originally Posted by Shawn O

I brought my brother a bottle of Voodoo Maple Bacon Ale to try at a party recently. A few of his friends (drinking Bud) were eager to try it out. They all said "this beer tastes nothing like bacon or donuts. It tastes like beer". Of course it does....its beer!

Voodoo tastes like partially carb'd maple syrup w/ liquid smoke....lol idk how you can get the taste of beer from drinking that

i found this over the weekend and popped it open, holys*** if you are a hophead i highly suggest this

I believe there is no good pumpkin beer...every one I've tried..as much as I've tried to like them..have sucked.
I'll just keep drinking octoberfest's with my pumpkin pie...works out better

Aye, agreeing here. Can't do it. Had DFH. Punkin in a mug with melted brown sugar on the rim. Best I've had, too sweet still, but interesting. I try all the pumpkin ones every year and can never get behind any of them. Boooooo.

fwiw..it wasn't the drought that did in the WI cherries...it was the early warm spring (80's in march), early blossoms, than several hard frosts right afterward that wreaked havoc on our fruit crops. Apples, cherries, etc...all hit hard.
The drought was just an added bonus

Apologies on that front, but here are some of my favorites over the past couple months:

#1
Aged Rogue's Double Chocolate Stout.
Could have given this to kindergartners for a lunchtime snack. Like the best chocolate milk you've never had. It stopped a room of people several high-quality beers in. They are rereleasing this in a couple weeks. I have ordered a case.

This one surprised me. Better than I expected. Not a huge fan of japanese beers.

My Local corner store is basically a local cornercraftbeerstoreemporium.
Small shout out to them: http://www.nathanielsquare.com/
Picked up a 2010 World Wide Stout, properly aged and only cooled for that day. Worth it.

Went to The Local in Saratoga Springs ( http://www.thelocalpubandteahouse.com/ ) and had this Heady-Topper from Alchemist.
Damn good. Hard to find because I guess their place got wrecked in serious flooding a year or two ago. Good to see them coming back strong.

Was in Saratoga Springs for the NAMJam car show, and got to sample one of the guys... wifes family?'s own brews.. I had the Hurricane, but everyone reported back proper deliciousness.
So should you ever find that- get it. Brewed in Kingston NY. Awesome, love NY craft beer. http://www.keeganales.com/

Ignore the business card- I was testing out my little tykes car card holder
But for a light, summer beer that you can sucker your friends into trying, in an effort to prepr them for meaner beers?
Southern Tier's Eurotrash Pils. Bet you can tell why we picked it up. Summer in a bottle. Seasonal.

If you ever get the chance to do Firestone's union Jack on tap- it's great. Way different than the bottle, just smoother and slightly sweeter.

I like licorice and chocolate and coffee.
Never had a better combination. However, we tried this one, aged 18 months. Sadly, i do not recommend it aged. Just got sugary sweet, followed by bitter. Bummer.

Barleywines- I like them, but only when they're really good, haha.
This one knocked it out of the park.

Brothers Reserve BRRRBON actualyl disappointed me.
Hard as hell to get, and just did not do enough. And I am a fan of barrel aged. Good, I'd still say try it if you can find it, but watching a couple of these bottles go for $35-45 is not worth it.

Brothers Reserve BRRRBON actualyl disappointed me.
Hard as hell to get, and just did not do enough. And I am a fan of barrel aged. Good, I'd still say try it if you can find it, but watching a couple of these bottles go for $35-45 is not worth it.

Really?? My local grocery had a bunch of this just sitting on the shelf forever...never bought it cuz widmer never has really impressed me. I'll have to go check and see if they still have it...,make some $$

Apologies on that front, but here are some of my favorites over the past couple months:

#1
Aged Rogue's Double Chocolate Stout.
Could have given this to kindergartners for a lunchtime snack. Like the best chocolate milk you've never had. It stopped a room of people several high-quality beers in. They are rereleasing this in a couple weeks. I have ordered a case.

Wow, don't know that I'd pay that much for WWS, even aged, but that's not a HORRIBLE markup... I'm looking forward to finally cracking my November 2008 bottle. Thinking I'll wait another year on it, so that it has five years on it. Have a feeling it'll be nice and smoothed out by then.

That's a shame. GREAT beer when fresh. Seriously underrated/under-appreciated, IMO.

Originally Posted by John@Roc-Euro

Brothers Reserve BRRRBON actualyl disappointed me. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2...y0so1_1280.jpg
Hard as hell to get, and just did not do enough. And I am a fan of barrel aged. Good, I'd still say try it if you can find it, but watching a couple of these bottles go for $35-45 is not worth it.

Agree with the other guy. $35-45? Really? Like he said, I can go buy bottles of that right now. Well, maybe not right now, as it's 11:30. Never tried it, but I feel like great Widmer beers are far and between.